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All Saints Orthodox Mission Church

Services are held Each Sunday at:
Gil Talbert Gibraltar Community Center
29340 South Gibraltar Road
Gibraltar, Michigan 48173

Office/Contact:
Sub-Deacon Michael Boyar (Administrator)
30111 Marr Street Gibraltar, MI 48173 734/671-8337
Email: AllSaintsDownriver@yahoo.com

On June 22, 2008, we celebrated the First Anniversary of our Mission. Today is All Saints Day! With 38 people coming to be with us (our largest group yet), and our Spiritual Advisor, Fr Gregory leading us, we all had a great time.

Several wonderful Orthodox things happened today: Sasha Boyar had her first Holy Confession, Caitlyn Bowser (with her mother Patricia) had her first dedicated Orthodox Prayers (which precedes her Baptism/Chrismation coming very soon), and congratulations to many people who received Holy Communion.

Sub-Deacon (and Master Chef) Michael Merren cooked lots of great food (but wouldn't clean up), and Diane McGee organized many games for the kids who also took home some real nice gifts.

We were especially honored to have Father Zivko Kajavic and his Protonitza come join us for a while.

With beautiful weather, we enjoyed our (as the Serbs call it) SLAVA very much.

We made National News!

Some very considerate person (not me) forwarded the information about the first year anniversary of our mission, and it made the front page of our diocesan website. Please take a moment and click on the link below.

http://www.chicagodiocese.org/news_080624_1.html

Please know that we DO NOT have collections during our services.
Instead, we graciously accept donations of support by providing a box near the rear of the church for people to give of their free will.

We have also included forms and envelopes on the back of our bulletins, so that if you want to dedicate your donations or just be acknowledged (and for tax purposes), just fill out the form, put everything together , drop it in and/or mail it to our office.

Your generosity would be appreciated and recognized in future publications with a special "Thank you" for your support.
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Although our Liturgies and Services are celebrated IN ENGLISH, with congregational singing (especially with the kids), we still have a need to organize a choir.

We are in need of people with or without musical experience to join us, but there are no rehearsals planned yet.

We also need a director to manage our many voices.
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We have begun our new Children's Church School Program, and since there is no registration, all children are welcome anytime for this program.

If you would like to volunteer, we need you. Our age group ranges from pre-school to pre-teen. We have plenty of great ideas - just looking for someone energetic to enjoy them. Please help.

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If you, or if you know someone who would enjoy receiving our monthly Newsletter by mail and/or e-mail, please e-mail me or call the church office.

We have begun sending out regular monthly mailings to our homes.

This a great way to keep in touch.

Please let us know if you, or someone you know, would like to be visited, and we will contact you and make all of the arrangements.
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We can always get our homes blessed, and would like to find and visit our SHUT-INS.
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Let us know what we can do for you.
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With THEOPHANY recently celebrated, we will have blessed water, and are now in Homes Blessing Season. Now is the time to get it done and we would like to find and visit our SHUT-INS, too.

Please let us know if you, or someone you know, would like to be visited, and we will contact you to make it happen. Let us know what we can do for you.

Looking for Orthodox Religious Articles?

We are happy to announce the return of:

PASCHA BOOKS & GIFTS
29107 W. Six Mile Road, Livonia Michigan 48152
(734) 422-0278 / info@paschaonline.com

Visit our store in Metropolitan Detroit, or shop online at:

www.paschaonline.com

Pascha Books & Gifts was first opened in 1997 in response to the needs of Orthodox Christians in the Metropolitan Detroit area for personal devotion and church supplies. Pascha carries a wide variety of Icons, Jewelry, Clergy Apparel, Books, Music, Holiday and Special Occasion Items, Candles, Incense, Incense Burners, Crosses, Liturgical Items (including imported and custom order items) and more! We look forward to serving all your needs.

We are still in the process of rebuilding and adding thousands of items to our website. If you are in search of a particular item, please feel free to call us and we will do our best to locate it for you if we do not have it in our store.

Ancient Faith Radio is a pan-Orthodox Internet based radio station on the air 24 hours a day. Choose a listen button from the top right of our page to tune in. We provide a steady stream of the rich, traditional music of the Orthodox faith as well as several daily and weekly programs and free downloadable Podcasts as part of our unique service. We encourage you to listen daily to this free, listener supported ministry and subscribe to our growing list of Podcasts!

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New Radio Station

It is a joy to introduce our second streaming station at Ancient Faith Radio called Ancient Faith Talk. Our survey results this past fall revealed a common thread of thought from our listeners? Please give us a second station to house all of the wonderful podcasts and keep your first station primarily music.? So starting Saturday, January 19, you will have Ancient Faith Music, Ancient Faith Talk & Ancient Faith Podcasts (for download).

On Ancient Faith Talk, each hour of the day will feature several of our podcasts, interviews and lectures. Since the lengths of our features vary, some hours will have less talk than others but each hour will have ample and substantive programming with the hour filled out with English language music and readings.

Ancient Faith Music will then be preserved to showcase the wonderful music of the Church interspersed with short inspirational quotes from the Fathers, the Psalms and liturgical verses. The stable of podcasts for free download at your convenience also continues to grow. Our 18 unique features will be joined by at least a half dozen more in the next couple of months. Be looking for new and regular podcasts from people like Father Thomas Hopko, Father Michael Oleska, Father John Hainsworth, Father Hans Jacobse and more.